Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. Seo In-guk plays a man so exhausted by his failures that he ...

Korean dramas have become renowned worldwide for their romance, storylines, and actors, but one genre in particular has captured the hearts of viewers: school dramas. These dramas have repeatedly ...

Burt is a contributor for TIME. Burt is a contributor for TIME. The Korean television industry continued on its trajectory of global dominance in 2025, capturing an increasing chunk of TV watchers’ ...

Burt is a contributor for TIME. No Tail To Tell; Can This Love Be Translated; All of Us Are Dead Burt is a contributor for TIME. While 2025 was a pretty good year for Korean dramas, 2026 has the ...

Is a world where people date artificial intelligence (AI) instead of human partners a dystopia or a utopia? While Western ...